PLATE LXXXV. 



FIG. i. Leptasterias epichlora alaskensis Verrill. Type. Dorsal spines, 

 a, b, c, of different sorts ; X 28. Dutch Harbor. 



FIG. la. The same specimen; a, inferomarginal spine; b, superomarginal ; 

 X28. 



FIG. ib. The same specimen ; a, b, c, adambulacral spines ; d, peractinal ; 

 X28. 



FIG. ic. The same specimen; a, b, c, large, erect, intermarginal major pedi- 

 cellariae ; X 28. 



FIG. id. The same specimen ; marginal spines and pedicellariae ; a, supero- 

 marginal spines; b, c, d, e, inferomarginals ; p, p', major 

 pedicellariae; i, i', minor pedicellariae. 



FIGS. 2-2e. The same. Young carried by parent, in different stages of growth ; 

 a, b, younger stages ; p, pedicel for attachment ; a, m, podia or 

 ambulacral feet ; X 28. In 2, the form is irregular, with few 

 podia; in 20, the form has become stellate, but with unequal 

 rays. Later stages are regularly stellate ; 2d is five-rayed ; the 

 others are six-rayed like the parent. 



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